CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Just after the clock struck midnight on Christmas, instead of hearing reindeer on the rooftop one east Charlotte family heard something quite different.

“It sounded like a big pop,” the homeowner’s daughter said.

What followed the noise was a bullet -- which came into the bedroom from the ceiling of the Larchmont Avenue home off The Plaza.

“And it came straight through and bounced off my mom's bed,” the woman said. The bullet landed right between her father’s legs.

The woman, who was so frightened she didn’t want to be identified, was in the room watching TV with her parents. She had taken her 2-year-old daughter out of the bedroom a short time before the gunshot blasted through the ceiling.

She says it came close to hitting her.

“I was a couple inches away from it, so it's pretty scary,” she said.

The family says police told them someone was probably celebrating Christmas by firing a gun straight up in the air.

The woman hopes if that's the case, whoever did this finds another way to show their Christmas spirit.

“Not something I expect on Christmas Day,” she said.

Firing a shot into a home is considered aggravated assault.